–as trial into 2013 ‘Agricola murder’ continues

GOVERNMENT Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh on Wednesday testified in the Georgetown High Court before Justice James Bovell-Drakes and a 12-member jury that he conducted the post-mortem on the body of Donna Taylor on February 3, 2014 at the GPHC mortuary.

He gave as the cause of death shock and haemorrhage, due to an incised wound to the neck, compounded by blunt force trauma to the head.

On trial is 27-year-old former soldier, Abiola Jacobs, called “Abby”, for the murder of her ex-boyfriend’s mother, Donna Taylor.

Police reported that Taylor’s body was found aback her Agricola home on Friday, January 31, 2014 with her throat slit, her hands bound behind her, and a cloth wrapped around her neck.

Taylor was reportedly asleep when she was dragged from her bed and taken into her backyard and killed.

According to the police, Samantha Sabatt, who was a house-guest of Taylor’s at the time of the murder, had to jump through an upper floor bedroom window, injuring herself in the process, when the killers came looking for her.

Sabatt, who lives in the United Kingdom, was home to attend her father’s funeral.

Jacobs, of Lot 55 Evan Phillips Park, Agricola, East Bank Demerara, was the girlfriend of the dead woman’s son, Bertram Taylor, Jr. but the young man had reportedly broken off the relationship with her because of her aggressive attitude.

It was reported that the young man had shared a very close relationship with his mother, and because of that relationship, the accused was of the view that the woman had influenced her son’s decision to sever the relationship.

The state is being led by Mandel Moore in association with Lisa Cave, while the defence attorney is Adrian Thompson.

The trial is continuing.